Books

Four years after the Iraqi city of Mosul was liberated from ISIS, Daud Salim is the first—and the only—bookseller to return to the storied street.

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange stories.

"The Conchologist’s First Book" was good enough to elevate the entire field.

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

The real-life British buildings behind J.G. Ballard's harrowing "High-Rise."

Finding Wonder is for explorers of places and ideas around the world and across history.

Thanks to nostalgia, the literary legacy of the USSR has a long afterlife.

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange stories.

Opponents of Oliver Cromwell published his family recipes, with a side of fake news.

And the "gentleman" doctors who made them.

Walter Scott wrote fantasies about medieval Saxons—just the thing for Jazz Age Angelenos.

It is an artifact of devotion, wealth, and empire.

For decades, often using a fake identity, he stole antique maps worth thousands of dollars each.

A new global census doubles the number of known copies of the scientist's treatise on gravity and more.